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Where Hallucinations Live: A Cross-Architecture Circuit in VQ-Tokenized Vision-Language Models

arXiv:2609.29048v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Unified vision-language models (VLMs) that tokenize images through a vector-quantized (VQ) codebook routinely hallucinate objects on grounded yes/no ben

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Why Does Misinformation Propagate Faster? An Algorithmic Perspective on X

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arXiv:2609.28947v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Misinformation is widely reported to propagate faster on engagement-based platforms, yet prior work largely focused on empirical analysis, without ide

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Your Transformer Can Hold Two Thoughts at Once: Evidence of Linear Superposition in LLMs

arXiv:2609.29845v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While Large Language Models (LLMs) rely on highly non-linear components, in this work we demonstrate that they exhibit fundamental linearity: when inp

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A 3D Pose-Based Ensemble Framework for Cricket Shot Classification and Automated Biomechanical Analysis

arXiv:2609.26923v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Cricket is one of the most celebrated sports world-wide, and technological advancement has become deeply embedded in how the modern game is analyzed a

A Discrepancy-Based Perspective on Dataset Condensation

arXiv:2509.10367v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Given a dataset of finitely many elements T = {mathbf{x}_i}_{i = 1}^N, the goal of dataset condensation (DC) is to construct a synthetic dataset S =

A Hierarchy-Aware Video-Language Model Evaluation and Hyperbolic Baseline for Surgery

arXiv:2609.27139v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Surgical procedures follow a phase-to-step hierarchy, yet the video-language models used to recognize them are evaluated with flat per-level metrics t

A hierarchy of faithfulness criteria for knowledge base completion

arXiv:2609.27863v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Knowledge graph completion is evaluated by ranking observed triples above randomly corrupted ones, which treats every unobserved fact as false. When the

A Hybrid Iterative Deep Ritz Method for Elliptic Interface Problems

arXiv:2609.27325v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In this work, we propose a hybrid iterative deep Ritz method (H-IDRM) for a class of interface problems for second-order elliptic operators. It is bas

A Leakage-Aware Multimodal Evaluation Framework for Early Intraoperative Acute Kidney Injury Prediction

arXiv:2609.26848v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Postoperative acute kidney injury (AKI) after major non-cardiac surgery carries substantial morbidity, yet early intraoperative risk stratification re

A Modular Dual-Arm Robotic Cell for Disassembly and Repair of Industrial Control Electronics

arXiv:2609.27466v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Industrial control electronics such as programmable logic controllers, servo drives and operator panels are routinely repaired in plant maintenance, but

A Quasi-Direct-Drive Underactuated Asymmetric Hand for Dexterous and Efficient Grasping and Manipulation

arXiv:2609.27240v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In this paper, we present the Berkeley QUAD (Quasi-direct-drive, Underactuated, Asymmetric Design) Hand, a four-finger anthropomorphic robotic hand with

A Shared Encoder Is Not a Shared Task: Conditional Comparison for Deep Expert Pools

arXiv:2609.27866v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sharing a deep encoder does not, by itself, fix the central confound of task-comparison scores. We show that cross-evaluated heads on a frozen shared

A Unified Framework and Dataset for Oriented Object Visual Grounding in Remote Sensing

arXiv:2609.28230v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Visual grounding in remote sensing images aims to locate objects described by referring expressions. Most existing methods predict horizontal bounding b

AdaDim: Dimensionality Adaptation for SSL Representational Dynamics

arXiv:2505.12576v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: A key factor in effective Self-Supervised learning (SSL) is preventing dimensional collapse, where higher-dimensional representation spaces (R

Advances in Diffusion-Based Generative Compression

arXiv:2601.18932v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Popularized by their strong image generation performance, diffusion and related methods for generative modeling have found widespread success

Adversarial Attacks and Identity Leakage in De-Identification Systems: An Empirical Study

arXiv:2609.27022v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In this paper, we investigate the impact of adversarial attacks on identity encoders within a realistic de-identification framework. Our experiments sho

AI is dominating the conversation at Climate Week

This week, world leaders descended on Manhattan for the UN General Assembly. It’s also New York Climate Week—investors, policymakers, advocates, and journalists are colliding at panels, talks, and fan

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All modalities are equal, but video is more equal: Closing the Cross-Attention Gap in Joint Video Generation

arXiv:2609.27901v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Video is a rich representation of a physical event, capturing appearance, geometry, motion, and temporal evolution. Other modalities, such as 3D body mo

An improved periodic activation for PINNs reconstructing convective flows

arXiv:2609.21798v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Architectures with periodic activation functions have already been shown to be beneficial in comparison to monotonic counterparts for a wide range of

Anatomy-Aware Synthesis of Post-Contrast Breast MRI from Pre-Contrast Images

arXiv:2609.27015v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We developed an anatomy-aware deep learning framework to synthesize post-contrast breast MRI from pre-contrast images, emphasizing tumor and background

Are Stated Reasoning Steps Causally Load-Bearing?

arXiv:2609.27038v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Chain-of-thought (CoT) monitoring assumes that the reasoning a model writes reflects the computation that directly produces its answer. Previous faithfu

ASAP: Visual Analytics for Identifying and Analyzing Image Patterns in AI-generated Images

arXiv:2609.27371v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generative image models can produce highly realistic images, raising concerns about potential misuse in creating deceptive content. Current deepfake a

Attention Routing Stabilizes Early: Working-Set Inference for Recurrent Language Models

arXiv:2609.27373v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recurrent language models repeatedly apply shared network blocks to refine latent representations, but standard inference recomputes global attention at

Backdoors in Learning-Based Industrial Robotic Arm Manipulation: An Empirical Security Study

arXiv:2609.26868v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning-based models (e.g., visuomotor and Vision-Language-Action (VLA)) are increasingly explored for industrial robotic manipulation, where model pre

Backdoors Leave Structural Traces: FedMAST for Backdoor Detection and Containment in Federated Learning

arXiv:2609.27760v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Federated learning enables distributed training of a shared model without requiring clients to share their raw data. However, its reliance on the inte

Banger paper introducing Jev-as-a-Judge. The overall finding is that you want to use a cheap judge for most of your evals and send only the …

Banger paper introducing Jev-as-a-Judge. The overall finding is that you want to use a cheap judge for most of your evals and send only the uncertain calls to a frontier model. This paper measures how

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Beyond Future Prediction: Denoising as Generative Adaptation for Robot Control

arXiv:2609.28339v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Pretrained generative Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) capture rich pixel-level visual and language-conditioned structure through large-scale image and vid

Beyond Mean Foils: Auditing Worst-Foil Specificity in Frozen CLIP Region Explanations

arXiv:2609.27356v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A region can overlap a target object yet contribute more to another class. We test regions selected by Cluster-based Concept Importance (CCI) in frozen

Binary Classification from Coupled Pairwise Labels

arXiv:2603.19713v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Even when it is difficult to assign absolute class labels to individual instances, relational information may still be available, such as whether tw

Calibration and transfer in indicator-based assessments of artificial consciousness

arXiv:2603.27597v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Research on artificial consciousness increasingly shifts evaluation from behaviour to internal architecture. Theory-based indicators are used to upd

CereVLA: Cerebellum-Inspired Consequence-Aware Residual Governance for Efficient Vision-Language-Action Execution

arXiv:2609.27468v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Action-chunked vision-language-action (VLA) policies improve inference efficiency, but limited feedback within committed action chunks can lead to accum

Combining LLMs and Genetic Search for ARC-AGI-2

arXiv:2609.27242v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLMs can generate programs for ARC-AGI-2 tasks, but the provided compute only allows a small number of attempts to generate, debug and validate soluti

Complementary Roles of Activation and Parametric Memory in Few-Shot Learning

arXiv:2609.28250v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: At test time, large language models (LLMs) can encode historical information in activation memory (i.e., KV caches) and parametric memory (i.e., updated

Compressed delayed-information projection for six-degree-of-freedom underwater vehicle navigation under delayed acoustic positioning

arXiv:2609.27439v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Delayed acoustic positioning packets constrain historical navigation states, but a current-time update evaluates them against a mismatched state, wherea

Confidence Falls Short: Asymmetric Certainty Gains from Optimization Hinder Multimodal Classification

arXiv:2609.28165v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal learning (MML) falls into the optimization dilemma due to the modality imbalance phenomenon, leading to suboptimal overall performance in pra

Context-Continuous Preference Learning for Exoskeleton Personalization

arXiv:2609.28427v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Personalizing exoskeleton assistance across operating conditions is constrained by the time and physical effort required to collect user feedback. We ex

Contrastive Learning for Authorship Verification

arXiv:2609.28471v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Our results show that contrastive learning outperforms a classification-based approach to authorship verification under the tested settings. We identify

CoPRE: Improving Sensitivity in Proprioceptive Contact Detection for Low-Cost Robot Arms

arXiv:2609.27381v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Contact detection during robotic manipulation allows robots to recognize unexpected contact and adapt their motion accordingly. However, in low-cost rob

Cross-Scale Transfer Learning for Depression Severity Prediction: From PHQ-8 to HAMD-17 Across Languages and Clinical Paradigms

arXiv:2609.28430v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This work addresses continuous depression-severity score prediction from clinical interview transcripts under data scarcity. We propose a sequential low

Damnatio Memoriae: Adversarially and Selectively Forgetting Identities in the Embedding Space of Face Recognition Models

arXiv:2609.27115v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A face recognition model links two images of a person recorded on separate occasions when their embedding similarity exceeds an operating threshold. We

Depth-Guided Contrastive Learning for 2D Representations with 3D Spatial Awareness

arXiv:2609.28159v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Standard contrastive learning frameworks are mainly designed from a semantic perspective, yet learning 2D visual representations that preserve 3D spatia

Design and Modeling of a Single-Port Three-Arm Robotic Tool for Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery

arXiv:2609.27099v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Surgical robots require highly dexterous and compact robotic systems capable of operating effectively within confined anatomical spaces. However, due to

Digital diglossia: Arabic between X and Facebook

arXiv:2609.28352v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This study highlights the distribution of Standard Arabic (SA; H(igh) variety) and Colloquial Arabic (CA; L(ow) variety) across X and Facebook. 16754 pu

Distilling Sequential Computation in Transformer Language Models

arXiv:2609.27233v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Transformer language models process sequences token by token in an autoregressive manner, making growing contexts increasingly expensive. Yet many adjac

Diverse by Design: Architectural Constraints for Prototype-Based Interpretability

arXiv:2609.27194v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Prototype-based neural networks provide inherent interpretability through case-based reasoning, yet suffer from critical limitations: prototypes converg

EduBehaviors: Assertion-based Schemas for Auditable Coding of Educational Dialogues

arXiv:2609.27043v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models have allowed the rapid deployment of pedagogical annotations corresponding to constructs of interest, allowing a natural language

Efficient Linear Bandits via Cluster-Aware Sketching

arXiv:2609.27594v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study the problem of computational efficiency for linear bandits in high-dimensional settings with a finite arm set. In linear bandits, the increase

EidosDoc: Implicit Structure Encoding for Cost-Effective Semi-Structured Document QA

arXiv:2609.27784v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Semi-structured documents are ubiquitous in scientific reports, financial statements, and technical manuals. Question answering over such documents re